[ale] Kernel panic: No init found?????

[James P. Kinney III]

I had a RH7.1 that blew up the same way. I was running the SGI-XFS
filesystem. Like a bozo, I had no working boot floppy that understood
XFS. I slapped in a new drive and nistalled to that. Then put in an XFS
capable kernel, mounted the old / and recovered my stuff. Afterwards, I
pulled the drive and tried using it for a new machine. The MBR was
flaky. 

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 18:06, Jim Seymour wrote:
> 
> 
> Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> > Try "init=/bin/bash". If it works, that will get you
> > a command line on an "empty" machine (no daemons,
> > no networking, no nothing). You can then browse around
> > the filesystem and see what's up. Normally init
> > would be /sbin/init; make sure that file exists, and is
> > executable.
> > 
> > If "init=/bin/bash" results in the same error, then
> > it probably means your hard drive's partition table
> > is fried. If you have a copy of the partition table
> > around (it's always a good idea!), you can boot into
> > something like TomsRootBoot and fdisk the HD back
> > into shape. You will probably need to run lilo
> > after doing so. Let us know if you get this far.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > -- Joe
> 
> Well still a no go.  The init=/bin/bash stopped at the same point. 
> Based on what you've said it looks like a reinstall.  I do not have a
> copy of the partition table :-(
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim Seymour
> 
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